That's a good point, we'll have to find out.
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That's a good point, we'll have to find out.
Nice Three Musketeers reference on the Bullit.:cool:
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We are back on the net, Home Page is up and running, with 100's of pics from our family albums and some history behind Ken & his achievements, covering 40 years of jet vehicles..all 3 jet boats , jet dragsters, jet Funny cars and jet truck, and home of the fastest man on water
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Attachment 74983 Very interested to see all the current projects for the WSR and who will ACTUALLY get a boat on the water.
Loring, You might be interested to know I have several new projects in the works, A completly new TopFuelHydro Plug(I won't be building the boats), A kilo outrigger for a propeller class but I'm not supposed to say yet, and the WSR boat. These are all different outrigger type hydro's specific for intended use. I can say two of the 3 will be run(tested) this summer (2013). I also built and sold one of my new circuit outrigger's that will be run as a 5ltr, Heres a photo of the 5ltr.
Regards, Dan
Well, I'm looking at your boat, and I know we need its own thread.
I raced RC's back a few years, and set a few world records then in IMPBA. Your sponson design looks really close to some I have in the garage on the shelf. I am positive they are yours. I would put them on a center section we would build out of carbon/kevlar/balsa. I never thought they would have been incorporated into a full size boat.
Can you get a thread going about this one?
Lee Taylor's Discovery II rocket boat crashed because he was running it in water too rough for a boat with sponson angles that steep. If he'd stuck with running the boat in glass smooth water he might have been alright.
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Craig Arfons' boat was a stretched Deaver type dragboat hull. It weighed about 2,500 lbs. The engine was a General Electric J-85 turbojet producing about 5,000 lbs thrust in afterburner. For reasons nobody ever figured out, the boat would always veer off to the driver's right.
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Another new boat at an advanced stage of construction is Colin Johns' Rush. RUSH WWSR - Home
Twin-engine jet boat planned in the late sixties by Craig Breedlove. Attachment 75144Attachment 75145
Attachment 75146A water speed record boat planned in the early eighties by Phllip Villa, nephew of Leo Villa. Like Taylor's rocket boat, the steep sponson angles would have caused a violent response to waves, creating a problem in anything except glass smooth water.
Images of the Craig Arfons crash.
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Great posts Doc!
Thanks Dr. X, and welcome to SOS !:seeya:
so the Doctor is in, eh? Welcome
British Pathe newsreel of John Cobb's Crusader jet boat making its public debut. JET NEWS - JOHN COBB'S "CRUSADER" JET SPEED BOAT - British Pathé
British Pathe newsreel of John Cobb testing the Crusader. COBB TESTS THE "CRUSADER" - British Pathé
British Pathe newsreel of the White Hawk jet hydrofoil boat being tested. 'WHITE HAWK' SPEED TRIALS - British Pathé
British Pathe newsreel showing details of the White Hawk jet hydrofoil boat. Selected Originals - MEN ON THE MOVE - NEW WATER SPEED BID aka WHITE HAWK JET SPEED BOAT - British Pathé
British Pathe newsreel from 1958 showing drag chute test with Bluebird. DONALD CAMPBELL MAKES PARACHUTE BREAKING TEST - British Pathé
Color documentary from 1955 of Donald Campbell's record attempt on Lake Mead. Donald Campbell World Water Speed Record 16 Nov 1955 - YouTube
Map of Lake Jackson, Sebring, Florida where Craig Arfons made his WSR attempt. The last run initiated inside the small cove at the north end, proceeding southeast along the longest possible straight.
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Les Staudacher jet hydroplanes -- Tempo Alcoa and Miss Stars and Stripes
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More of Miss Stars and Stripes
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Who was killed on Loch Ness back in the 70's?
John Cobb was killed on Loch Ness in 1952.
Link to British Pathe newsreel - http://www.britishpathe.com/video/john-cobb-dies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrs32Jcdpoo
Great posts Doc...I'm getting an education. I came across Campbell's last run....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=4xemKc2In5Y&feature=endscreen
Doug Ford, formerly the aerodynamicist for the Miss Budweiser team, told me Bluebird although though not an air trap boat was getting aerodynamic lift even at lower speeds. This aerodynamic lift reduced hydrodynamic drag and helped Bluebird go faster.
Came across an RC modeler who is working on a model of Cobb's boat.
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Drawing showing interior details of Cobb's boat. The rudder was in the middle of the boat at the bottom of the forward planing shoe.
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It actually was a step bottom, wasn't it? Looks like there is a considerable step right in front of the rudder at the rear of the forward planing surface.
It was just a few years ago that they found Campbell's Body.
Actually 2000/2001
http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oGd...onald_Campbell
Cool song written in memory of Campbell including some great footage from a '88 BBC production starring Anthony Hopkins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3ftZfB-VNQ
Now I need to find that movie.....I never heard of it. He did a great job in World's Fastest Indian.
A great documentary of the recovery and reconstruction of K7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgqHhd9QkFQ
Here's the Bluebird Project site: Bluebird Project
Sure would be cool to get in touch with Ted Walsh.....
Video of the trials on Coniston of a Bluebird replica boat, the K777...this is NOT the reconstructed K7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju52_kDSfSQ